Aspects of Humanity, etc. [Verses. By Richard Randolph.]

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J. B. Lippincott Company, 1869 - 55 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 15 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Pàgina 54 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Pàgina 44 - Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Pàgina 42 - Thus was Beauty sent from heaven, The lovely ministress of truth and good In this dark world : for truth and good are one, And Beauty dwells in them, and they in her, With like participation.
Pàgina 51 - For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby; and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Pàgina 49 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
Pàgina 48 - Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers ; beware of philosophy, is a precept not to be received in too large a sense ; for in this mass of nature there is a set of things that carry in their front, though not in capital letters yet in stenography and short characters, something of divinity, which to wiser reasons serve as luminaries in the abyss of knowledge, and to judicious beliefs, as scales and roundles to mount the pinnacles and highest pieces of divinity.
Pàgina 50 - Purity and all those other blessed Fruits, which are acceptable to God : by which holy Birth, to wit, Jesus Christ formed within us, and working his Works in us, as we are sanctified, so are we justified in the sight of God...
Pàgina 48 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

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